Example sentences of "who [pers pn] [verb] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Pyke got me a half of bitter I stood there regarding the rows of inverted bottles behind the barman 's head , not looking at the other actors in the pub , who I knew were all staring at me . |
| 2 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 3 | Saw three fellows at the end of Royce Wood , who I found were laying out the plan for an iron rail way from Manchester to London . |
| 4 | She had spent much of the week in and out of the air raid shelter dodging hit-and-run raiders who we knew were also reconnoitring for further attacks . |
| 5 | A separatist rebel group , FLEC ( the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda — an area bordering on Congo and Zaïre which had no common border with Angola ) , on April 27 attacked a petroleum installation on the Congolese border , seizing four French and three Congolese workers , who they said were " violating Cabindan territory " . |
| 6 | They 've lodged an official complaint against the police , who they say were treating the case as suicide . |
| 7 | Several thousand demostrators had taken to the streets , attacked " indecently dressed " women ( who they claimed were responsible for a drought ) , set fire to the head office of the Niger Women 's Association ( AFN ) , and also attacked the residences of the local prefect and sultan . |
| 8 | So erm I do n't whether or not I s I still do n't think they were ultimately revolutionary , I think they were just erm people who they think were exploiting them at the time sort of erm you know in a certain situation |
| 9 | The defence minister , Pavel Grachev , in a television interview , warned dissident officers corps who he said were trying to drag the army into politics in an attempt to seize power . |
| 10 | He was , though , still unwilling to put up with people who he felt were beneath his intellectual level . |
| 11 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 12 | The government also tried to secure the removal from Punjab of four senior civil servants and police officers who it believed were strong supporters of Sharif . |
| 13 | The UVF claimed responsibility for the shootings on Jan. 4 and Jan. 30 of Catholic civilians who it claimed were members of the IRA . |
| 14 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |